Winner of the special Mercedes Viñas Prize in the International singing contest Francisco Viñas in2013, Victoria Yarovaya is one of the most outstanding young mezzo-sopranos to come out of Russia recently. Born in Moscow, she began studying music at 5 years old as a soloist in a well-known children’s choir and went on to win many competitions. She was awarded a scholarship from the New Names Foundation and graduated from the Academic Music College at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory as a pianist. Her postgraduate studies were at the Opera Centre under Galina Vishnevskaya, she attended master classes given by Riccardo Muti, Mauro Trombetta, Mimi Curtsi and Irina Bogachova and joined the Academia Rossiniana in Pesaro, where she worked under Alberto Zedda. She became a soloist at the Novaya Opera in Moscow in 2009 and in the same year appeared with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro as Marchesa Melibea IL VIAGGIO A REIMS and as Rosina IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA with the Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini. In 2010 she returned to the Rossini Opera Festival as Demetrio-Seveno DEMETRIO E POLIBIO and inthe same year first appeared with the Glyndebourne Festival. Recently she appeared as Tisbe CENERENTOLA for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, returned to the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro to sing Ernestina L’OCCASIONE FA IL LADRO, appeared again in the role of Demetrio DEMETRIO E POLIBIO at the Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, made her role debut as Hänsel HÄNSEL UND GRETEL for GlyndebourneTouring Opera and sang Dido DIDO AND AENEAS for the Novaya Opera Moscow. Her appearances in the title role of Cenerentola at Scottish Opera and at L’Opéra de Rouen recently won her great critical acclaim: Most recently she appeared at the Rossini in Wildbad Festival as Falliero BIANCA E FALLIERO gaining excellent reviews, made a considerable impression as the mezzo-soprano soloist in the ROSSINI MESSA DI GLORIA at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and sang Isabella L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI for Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. She added the role of PippoLA GAZZA LADRA at Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, appeared as Rosina IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA at Finnish National Opera, sang LjubavaSADKO for the Vlaanderen Opera in Gent, Calbo Maometto II for Rossini in Wildbad and Isaura Tancredi in concert version in Marseille.

Reviews:
 CENERENTOLA  Scottish Opera, Autumn 2014The Guardian - Kate Molleson - Thursday 16 October 2014Victoria Yarovaya is terrific as Cenerentola, with a velvet low register and dazzling coloratura to boot. It's worth sitting through this production for her final scene alone.

The Herald Scotland - Keith Bruce - 17th October 2014The best voice on stage, by a mile, is that of young Russian mezzo Victoria Yarovaya in the title role, and she is undoubtedly a talent to watch.

Scottish Daily Mail {Main} - Tom Kyle - Friday 17, October 2014Victoria Yarovaya was quite magnificent as Angelina (La Cenerentola), soaring from sobbing sadness to the heights of coloratura contralto as the day arrived when her prince did come.

The Telegraph - John Allison - 2nd November 2014Even the evening's lone star, the Russian mezzo-soprano Victoria Yarovaya in the title role, is herself transformed from this point on. She fires off glowing roulades in the finale, having opened the evening a little cautiously. Yet, right from the start her velvety tone goes well with the character's melancholy, and she is undoubtedly a name to watch.

The Times (T2) - Richard Morrison - 17th October 2014First and most crucially there seems to be only one singer on stage with anything like the vocal power and technique to ping Rossini's quicksilver coloratura to the back of the dress circle - and that is the young Russian mezzo Victoria Yarovaya in the title role. After a slightly untuneful start, she gets better and better, culminating with a storming number at the final curtain. And her transformation from downtrodden Cinders to radiant princess is joyously managed.

Opera Magazine - Andrew Clark - December 2014Her performance accurately tracked the development of the character she was portraying, blossoming in the finale with a knock-out account of Rossini's demanding climactic aria.

 DEMETRIO E POLIBIO and BIANCA E FALLIERO RecordingsOpera Magazine  Stephen Hastings - February 2018These live recordings of opere serie from the Rossini in Wildbad festival are especially recommended for those wishing to sample the art of the Moscow-born mezzo Victoria Yarovaya, whose voice is produced here with beguiling freedom and employed with exquisite musicality... and the Russian mezzo - though less stirringly individual in tembre and accent than Sara Mingardo in the 1992 Dynamic recording  consistently matches the musical inspiration of the young Rossini when composing for the vocal register he loved most... by comparison, Yarovaya sounds relatively lightweight but no less thrilling in her virtuosity (to which she brings a glowingly youthful suppleness), with words and rhythms melded to more consistently idiomatic effect. And overall her performance surpasses the valiant efforts of both...